As diesel trucks idle in line at a Port of Long Beach terminal, a big-rig electric truck pulls into a lot beneath one of the port’s towering bridges.
The lot will be the site of one of the largest electric truck charging depots in the state, charging up to 500 trucks a day by summer. The truck belongs to Jennie Abarca, owner of King Fio Trucking , a company based in Long Beach that moves shipping containers from the ports to Southern California warehouses.
Eight of the 32 trucks in Abarca’s fleet are now fully electric.
But a pause on a major California rule to phase out diesel trucks has left her feeling “betrayed” and uncertain about what’s next for the industry.
The past inspiring the future
Abarca grew up in Whittier, where her dad was a mechanic and auto shop teacher…